Cover of The hare with amber eyes

Book 2010

The hare with amber eyes

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Published
2010
  • Jewish businesspeople
  • Jewish bankers
  • Art
  • Family
  • Netsukes
  • Travel
  • Art collections
  • Collectors and collecting

Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.